Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila Janah received a BA from Harvard.
I believe that work is at the core of human dignity. And I think that in doing work people learn to understand their value in human society. And I think this is especially true for people who have been systematically told, you know, overtly or, you know, more subtly that they don't really deserve ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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